Assessing the potential of longitudinal smartphone based cognitive assessment in schizophrenia: A naturalistic pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although cognition is a core symptom of schizophrenia and associated with functional impairment, the degree of training for and time associated with its assessment makes it difficult to routinely monitor in clinic care.Smartphone based cognitive assessments could serve as a tool to measure cognition in real time as well as being easily scalable for broad use.Combined with other data gathered from smartphone sensors such as steps, sleep, and self-reported symptoms - capturing 'cognition in context' could provide a powerful new tool for assessing the functional burden of disease in schizophrenia.

Methods

18 participants with schizophrenia and 17 healthy controls completed novel cognitive assessments on their personal smartphones over the course of 12 weeks while als

SUBMITTER: Liu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6476810 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature